Characters

The Accident Devil gives form to the concept of accidents, above all the violent collisions of vehicles. Summoned during the clash between Yoru and the Chainsaw Devil, it serves the War Devil as a living weapon rather than acting on any will of its own.

The Aging Devil ranks among the Primal Fears, the most ancient and undying of devils, and personifies the dread of growing old. Throned on a heap of flesh and bone, it acts as the central villain of its namesake arc, bargaining with Public Safety and dragging its foes into a realm where no one can die.

This unnamed former Devil Hunter spends eighty-two years stranded inside Aging's World after a careless wish to halt his aging seals his fate. Midway through the Aging Devil arc he turns into an unlikely guide for Asa and Denji, and at last the one who turns the tables on his captor.

The AIDS Devil embodies the fear of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. It never appears on the page, because the Chainsaw Devil swallowed it well before the series begins, an act that scrubbed the illness from existence together with the devil that personified it.

Akane Sawatari is a freelance Devil Hunter who throws in with the Gun Devil's faction and fights alongside Katana Man, armed with a Snake Devil pact. Cool and detached on the surface, she stands as the key supporting villain of the Katana Man arc.

Aki Hayakawa serves as the Public Safety Saga's deuteragonist, a disciplined Devil Hunter on Makima's special squad driven by a vendetta against the Gun Devil. Bound to several devils through contract, he grows into a reluctant family man before the Gun Devil claims his body.

Aldo is an American freelance Devil Hunter and the most fainthearted member of a family of hitmen. Carrying a Skin Devil contract that lets him wear the faces of the dead, he travels to Japan during the International Assassins arc to collect a bounty on Chainsaw Man.

The Angel Devil, known simply as Angel, personifies the idea of angels and hunts devils for Public Safety as part of Tokyo Special Division 4. Beautiful, languid, and oddly gentle for a devil, he drains the lifespans of those he touches and forges that stolen time into weapons.

The Arnolone Syndrome Devil is the embodiment of Arnolone syndrome, a fictional ailment. It belongs to the cluster of disease devils that the Chainsaw Devil swallowed before the story opens, wiping the condition out of the world in the same stroke.

Asa Mitaka serves as the Academy Saga's deuteragonist, a withdrawn high school student who becomes the unwilling host of Yoru, the War Devil. Sharing one body with the devil, she lives as a rare conscious Fiend host while tangled up with Denji and the legend of Chainsaw Man.

The woman who runs the orphanage taking in Asa Mitaka after Devils orphan her hides cruelty behind warmth. Posing as a fellow victim of the Typhoon Devil, she coaxes Asa into surrendering her beloved cat, then drowns the animal out of pure envy.

Asa Mitaka's unnamed father is a minor figure from her backstory, a troubled man who dies years before the Academy Saga. His killing, carried out by his own wife for insurance money, surfaces as a dark revelation in Asa's recollections.

Asa Mitaka's unnamed mother is a loving but ferociously protective parent who dies before the Academy Saga, slain by the Typhoon Devil. Her devotion, and a hidden ruthless streak, shape the daughter she leaves behind.

Barem Bridge is a human turned Hybrid through fusion with the Flamethrower Devil, his arms reshaped into fire-spewing weapons. Once one of Makima's mind-controlled hunters, he resurfaces as the fanatical right hand of the Chainsaw Man Church, obsessed with finishing the work she left behind.

The Bat Devil is a towering bat-shaped Devil who feeds on human blood to heal and regrow lost limbs. He looms as the central threat of the Bat Devil arc, where his hunger pits him against a newly transformed Denji, and he later resurfaces as a feral, mindless beast during the Justice Devil arc.

Beam is the Shark Fiend, a devil-turned-fiend who carries the body of a young man topped with a shark's head. Recruited into Public Safety's Special Division 4, he becomes Denji's wildly loyal partner, worshipping him as Lord Chainsaw and gladly bleeding himself dry to keep the Chainsaw Devil alive.

The Bitterness Devil is a minor Devil that personifies the sensation of bitterness. It surfaces only briefly during the Aging Devil arc, swallowed up in Pochita's rampage and then coughed back into existence by Denji as he claws his way out of a memory-eroding ordeal.

Bucky is the Chicken Devil, a cheery, headless bird who winds up as the class pet at Fourth East High School. Gentle and talkative rather than threatening, he becomes the unlikely heart of a lesson about valuing life, and his accidental death sets off a chain of grief that haunts Asa Mitaka.

The Car Devil is a Devil born from the idea of cars and the dangers of the road. Though it never actually appears, Makima cites it as proof that a Devil's might tracks the dread its concept inspires, ranking it surprisingly strong thanks to humanity's fear of crashes.

The Carpenter Bee Devil is a Devil shaped from the dread of carpenter bees. A giant insect that took over a Tokyo apartment block, it earned a footnote in the news when Asa Mitaka cut it down as the tenth Devil she had killed in a single month.

The Centipede Devil is a Devil that personifies the dread of centipedes and works for Public Safety under its Tokyo Special Division 6. A vast armored insect, it briefly pins the rampaging Pochita before being torn apart in a handful of seconds.

Chocolate is a cat that Power comes across beside a vending machine. Little more than a brief encounter in the story, the animal is notable mainly for how calmly it tolerates both the Blood Fiend's affection and Denji's loud temper.

The Class President is the unnamed girl heading Asa Mitaka's homeroom at Fourth East High School. Driven by jealousy, she strikes a contract with the Devil she takes for the Justice Devil and turns on Asa, serving as a key villain of the Justice Devil arc.

The Claw Devil is a Devil tied to the idea of claws. It never appears directly, surfacing only as one of the contracts bound to the veteran hunter Kishibe, and is reckoned dangerous enough to draw notice when his pacts are read aloud.

A devil born from humanity's revulsion toward roaches, this towering creature surfaces briefly during the Justice Devil arc as an enemy of Chainsaw Man. Their clash tears across the city, costs the Bat Devil its life by accident, and ends with Denji choosing a stray cat over the crowd.

Among the franchise's weakest devils, this entity personifies coffee and exists in the story only as a passing reference. Makima cites it once to teach a lesson about how dread shapes a devil's might, and beyond that brief mention almost nothing about the creature has surfaced.

Within the series, the title Control Devil points to more than one figure, since the devil of control has been carried by two different incarnations over the course of the story. The earlier of them is Makima, while the later is Nayuta.

Once the Cosmos Fiend, Cosmo numbers among Quanxi's devoted lovers and channels the terror of infinite cosmic knowledge. Forever grinning and chirping a single word, she hides a calm, emotionless mind able to flood any victim with the totality of the universe.

Crambon is the cat Asa Mitaka rescues amid the Typhoon Devil's rampage, a small companion whose survival comes at a terrible cost. Their short bond runs through some of the saga's bleakest turns, ending in quiet cruelty at the hands of someone Asa trusted.

The Curse Devil gives form to humanity's dread of curses, a contract devil summoned to deliver lethal retribution. Through deals struck with Aki Hayakawa and Santa Claus, it answers a few precise stabs of a nail by manifesting to crush and devour whoever was marked.

One of the dreaded Primal Fears, the Darkness Devil embodies the terror of the dark and the unknown, and looms over the International Assassins arc as its greatest threat. Said to be nearly as ancient as mankind, it can kill the instant its hostility falls upon a foe.

The Death Devil reigns as the single most powerful devil alive, eldest of the Four Horsemen and the looming menace behind the Academy Saga. Posing as the schoolgirl Fami and steering the Chainsaw Man Church from the shadows, she works to cheat a prophecy that names her the bringer of the apocalypse.

A ruthless yakuza boss whose real name never surfaces, the Debt Collector seizes the orphaned Denji and chains him to his late father's debt. As the villain of the Introduction arc, his betrayal sets Denji's whole story in motion, and his death later breeds a vengeful grandson.

Denji is the chainsaw-headed hero at the center of the series, a penniless boy who inherits his father's debt and trades his ordinary life to merge with the devil Pochita. Pulling the cord in his chest turns him into Chainsaw Man, and his hunger for love, food, and a normal life drives everything that follows.

Denji's unnamed father is a posthumous figure whose shadow shapes the hero's life, an abusive, debt-ridden man whose death drops his son into the grip of the Yakuza. The hidden truth of how he died becomes one of Denji's most deeply buried wounds.

A self-assured hunter for Public Safety, the Division 2 Vice Captain steps into the Bomb Girl arc to confront Reze. Armed with a Fox Devil contract and a casual swagger, he arrives to rescue a comrade, only to meet a swift and grisly end at the bomber's hands.

A nameless devil hunter of Public Safety's Tokyo Special Division 4, this young woman left a brief but warm impression on the squad's rookies before the Gun Devil's assassination sweep claimed her life in a daylight street ambush.

A nameless agent of Public Safety's Tokyo Special Division 4, this serious-faced devil hunter showed quiet kindness to new recruits before falling in the Gun Devil's coordinated strike against the special units.

Tied to Santa Claus by an old contract, the Doll Devil is a barely-seen entity whose pact lets its partner turn living people into obedient, blade-armed puppets that pass the affliction along by touch.

Dominion is a strange, four-eyed and four-eared creature, a devil or possibly a fiend, that appears among the brainwashed servants Makima marshals at the height of her grip over Public Safety's hunters.

The Ear Devil is the living embodiment of ears and serves briefly as a Public Safety hunter in Special Division 5, cut down alongside his whole squad the instant Chainsaw Man turns on them during the Aging Devil arc.

Equality Devil personifies the abstract idea of equality, yet it ranks among the series' true ciphers, never once shown and surfacing only as a name floated in passing before the conversation moves on.

The Eternity Devil embodies the dread of the infinite, trapping its prey inside a time-frozen, endlessly looping floor that doubles as its stomach. It headlines two arcs, first against Public Safety's Division 4 and later alongside Fami.

Fairness Devil stands for the abstract concept of fairness, but it is among Chainsaw Man's least-seen beings, known purely from one offhand mention during a single scene and never actually shown on the page.

Once an idealistic would-be hero, the Fake Chainsaw Man fights as a Fire Devil contractor who poses as the real Chainsaw Man for his church, driven by vengeance after Denji let his brother die, then weaponized as a brainwashed pawn of the Death Devil.

A Primal Fear styled as a macabre chef, the Falling Devil weaponizes gravity and trauma to send her victims plunging skyward into Hell, plating them as gruesome named dishes across two of the Academy Saga's darkest arcs.

Fami is the cap-wearing Famine Devil of the Four Horsemen, a cold and gluttonous schemer who secretly runs the Chainsaw Man Church and bends other devils into pawns in her bid to halt the prophesied apocalypse.

The Famine Devil is a meek, tearful Horseman who claims to rescue humanity by easing its suffering through death, draining the lifespan of anyone she touches before being broken and enslaved by her eldest sister.

A devil born from the dread of fire, it works as a hidden pawn of the Death Devil while masquerading as the so-called Justice Devil. Anyone bound to it receives tremendous strength, yet that gift slowly rots the mind into a fanatical hunger for righteous violence.

A devil shaped by humanity's fear of fish, it surfaces as a colossal aquatic beast. It earns a footnote in the story for swallowing a piece of the Gun Devil, a scrap that devil hunters later carve back out of its remains.